Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting renovate package, versions >=39.218.0 <40.33.0
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- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed13 Jan 2026
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Introduced: 13 Jan 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-77 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade renovate to version 40.33.0 or higher.
Overview
renovate is a dependency updater.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to the improper sanitazation of user-supplied chart name in the helmRepositoryArgs() function of kustomize manager. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the host system by supplying a malicious chart name in a crafted kustomization.yaml file and a manipulated Helm repository index.yaml.